gentle-and-fierce reblogged
Can we take a moment to appreciate whumpees trying to stay quiet while in pain? Maybe they’re being tortured and the knife is slowly cutting into them, going deeper and burning more with every second, and they’re trying to breathe through it and let the pain wash over them, but they can’t help but let out some broken gasps, that turn into broken whimpers, and maybe they’re humming a familiar tune to stop them crying out, but the pain gets worse and worse, and they just can’t take it anymore, and finally, they cry out…
That one little gasp or whimper gets so much more expressive when you’ve also seen them trying to keep it in